If Gingrich loses in Fla., can he come back again? (AP)

ORLANDO, Fla. ? Can Newt Gingrich come back a third time?

If he loses Tuesday in Florida's primary, Gingrich will spend the next month trying to prove the answer is yes.

"We were dead in June and July . but we came roaring back and we will again," Gingrich said.

Still, the former House speaker, who has pledged to fight on until the GOP convention this summer, faces a tough road out of Florida. He plunges next into a scattershot series of state contests where he has little organization and must overcome steep odds to win.

Gingrich was hoping to ride a wave of enthusiasm to a win in Florida and beyond, stoked by his decisive victory in South Carolina. But unless he pulls off an upset Tuesday, he will have squandered that momentum heading into states that look favorable for leading rival Mitt Romney.

After being battered by the well-funded Romney political machine, the Gingrich campaign will redouble its efforts to "tell the truth about Romney faster and more efficiently than he can lie about us," Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond said.

The calendar works against Gingrich rebounding anytime soon. After a steady march through four state contests in January, the pace quickens before taking a long breather next month.

There are seven elections in February, which kicks off with Nevada's caucuses Saturday. That will be followed by contests next week in Colorado, Minnesota and Maine as well as a non-binding primary in Missouri. A 17-day break will be capped by primaries in Arizona and Michigan on Feb. 28.

The schedule benefits a candidate, like Romney, with deep pockets and a sophisticated ground game and able to compete on multiple fronts at once. Gingrich, who failed to even get on the ballot in his home state of Virginia for the March 6 Super Tuesday primary, is playing catch-up.

"We're behind the eight-ball," acknowledged George Harris, a Las Vegas restaurant owner who serves as a national finance chair for Gingrich and is helping his efforts in Nevada.

Romney has had staff in the state since June and has already begun running ads there. And he's a known quantity in the state, having won it when he sought the GOP nomination in 2008.

Gingrich dispatched six staffers to Nevada just days ago and they have rapidly built the operation from the ground up.

Maine is in the former Massachusetts governor's backyard and, in a show of force, he has 40 state legislators backing him. Another candidate, Ron Paul, also has a strong network of support in the state, a holdover from his 2008 presidential run.

Gingrich aides are aiming to hang on.

"We're getting a late start here," said John Grooms, Gingrich's grassroots director in Maine, who until December was backing Herman Cain. "The goal here is to have a good, respectable showing."

Romney grew up in Michigan and is still looked at as something of favorite son among Republicans in the state.

Romney claimed both Colorado and Michigan in 2008 and maintains networks in each state.

Just 10 days ago, an ebullient Gingrich touched down in Florida, fresh off his win in South Carolina and drawing cheering crowds of thousands. It was a far different tone as he wrapped up his campaign Monday with a lap around the state. Crowds were far sparser, and although Gingrich kept up the attacks on Romney, he sometimes sounded tired as he raced from Jacksonville to Pensacola to Fort Myers.

The Gingrich camp sought to put a positive spin on what is expected to be a disappointing showing in Florida, where the winner will scoop up all 50 delegates.

On Tuesday, the campaign said he had raised more than $5 million in January, more than half of it coming since his South Carolina win. Aides said he had raised about $10 million in the last three months of 2011. That's his largest total to date, but still far behind Romney's take of $24 million in the period.

At a polling place in Orlando, Gingrich predicted the race would continue for another six months.

"Unless Romney drops out earlier," he quipped.

A memo from Gingrich political director Martin Baker made the case that moving forward, delegates will be awarded proportionally, meaning that even if Romney racks up wins the delegate count could remain tight so long as the races are competitive.

Baker noted that no matter who wins Florida, only 5 percent of the 2,288 national convention delegates will have been awarded.

"The campaign is shifting to a new phase where opportunities are not limited to a single state," Baker wrote.

Gingrich aides also said they had succeeded in effectively making the race a two-man contest, with Gingrich surviving as the conservative alternative to Romney. Rick Santorum, who had been splitting the conservative vote with Gingrich, is trailing badly in Florida.

Gingrich's prospects improve when the race sweeps back to the South on Super Tuesday. The Bible Belt is his sweet spot and his onetime home state of Georgia is in the mix with its 76 delegates.

"The math doesn't get better for us until much later in the game," Hammond acknowledged.

Gingrich will have to survive until then. He fought his way back into the GOP race last year after his top aides resigned en masse in the spring. He rallied again in South Carolina after a barrage of attack ads knocked him from front-runner status in Iowa.

Harris, in Nevada, says a repeat won't be impossible.

"The thing I love about Newt is that he's a fighter," he said. "Every time you think you've knocked him down he gets back up and knocks you in the face."

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3 killed in Sacramento SUV-light rail train crash

Officials test the signals and lights at an intersection where an SUV and Light Rail train collided in Sacramento, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. Authorities say a light-rail train has collided with a sport utility vehicle in Sacramento, killing a man, a woman and a baby and injuring seven other people. (AP Photo/Steve Yeater)

Officials test the signals and lights at an intersection where an SUV and Light Rail train collided in Sacramento, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. Authorities say a light-rail train has collided with a sport utility vehicle in Sacramento, killing a man, a woman and a baby and injuring seven other people. (AP Photo/Steve Yeater)

Officials test the signals and lights at an intersection where an SUV and Light Rail train collided in Sacramento, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. Authorities say a light-rail train has collided with a sport utility vehicle in Sacramento, killing a man, a woman and a baby and injuring seven other people. (AP Photo/Steve Yeater)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ? The driver of an SUV veered around a crossing arm and ignored flashing warning lights before the vehicle was struck by a light-rail train in Sacramento on Saturday, killing an 18-month-old boy and two adults, authorities said.

The other person inside the Nissan Pathfinder, a woman in her 30s, was taken to a local hospital with serious injuries, said Niko King, assistant chief with the Sacramento Fire Department. Six of the roughly 50 passengers on the light rail train suffered minor injuries and were taken to a hospital, he said.

King and a spokeswoman for the transit line said video from a camera at the crossing clearly shows the SUV driving around the crossing arm. The light rail followed two Union Pacific freight trains, which use separate tracks, and the arms had remained down during the interval, said Alane Masui, spokeswoman for the Sacramento Regional Transit District.

"They were down after the UP trains and before the (light rail) train approached, so the crossing arms were properly working," she said.

She said the length of time between the freight trains clearing the intersection and the light rail train crossing it had not yet been determined and would be part of the investigation. Investigators also were reviewing video from a camera mounted on the light rail train.

The collision, in a working class neighborhood south of downtown, occurred shortly after 4 p.m. and pushed the Pathfinder about 30 yards from the point of impact.

"All I heard was a big bang, and I saw a light-rail train heading south with a big truck smashed on it," said Ravin Pratab, 42, of Davis, whose car was among those waiting for the train at the rail crossing, on the opposite side of the tracks from the Pathfinder.

The train was going about 55 mph at the time, a typical speed for that location.

Authorities did not release the identities of those in the Pathfinder or their relationship. A man and woman in the vehicle, both in their 40s, died at the scene while the baby boy was pronounced dead at a hospital. Firefighters said one had been ejected.

The University of California, Davis Medical Center in Sacramento would say only that the woman remained in serious condition late Saturday.

The light rail system carries an average of 50,000 passengers a day, with lines stretching from the state capital to its suburbs in the north, south and east.

Masui said there are four sets of tracks at the crossing ? two for freight and two for light rail so trains from both systems can run in either direction.

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White House proposes new help for troubled mortgages. Too little, too late?

President Obama's mortgage modification program has helped only a fraction of Americans under water. New measures have been proposed, but they could be costly to taxpayers.

President Obama on Friday proposed to sweeten a deal from Washington to entice banks to modify payments, lower loan principal, and expand eligibility in order to help more of the 11 million American families sinking under their mortgages.

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The proposed modifications would move the Home Affordable Mortgage Program's sunset date from the end of 2012 to the end of 2013, triple incentives for banks to participate by paying up to 63 cents on the dollar to forgive portions of borrowers' debt, and force banks to consider other debts, including medical bills, in their approval process.

Part of a series of housing relief measures expected as Obama kicks off his 2012 reelection campaign, the proposed expansion of HAMP has been described by some housing experts as too little, too late, especially given that the program has already fallen far short of its goal of helping 4 million homeowners sinking under debt.

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Moreover, Obama's gambit to include mortgage servicers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which hold nearly half of all US mortgages and have received $150 billion in bailout cash since 2008, have raised concerns from their independent government regulator that forcing the lenders to forgive principal could cost taxpayers another $100 billion.

The regulator, Edward DeMarco, told Congress last week that he doubted potentially costly principal modification ? in essence, using Treasury funds to pay down the principal of an individual's mortgage ? would be more effective than loan forbearance, which means allowing homeowners to lower or postpone payments in order to catch up on their debt. Mr. DeMarco is currently reviewing Obama's proposal.

Housing and Urban Development secretary Shaun Donovan disagreed in a conference call with reporters. "It's not enough to increase access,? he said. ?We also have to increase impact. We have to rebuild equity. Lowering payments isn't enough."

The issue of taxpayers bailing out fellow homeowners is a heated one. A 2009 rant by an MSNBC reporter about mortgage bailouts helped spark the conservative tea party movement.

?This is a hoot,? Thomas Lawler, an economist and former Fannie Mae executive, told Bloomberg News. ?The government will pay Fannie and Freddie, who are effectively owned by the government, to reduce the principal on certain loans??

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Student charged in Utah school bomb plot (AP)

ROY, Utah ? Authorities on Friday charged an 18-year-old man with possession of a weapon of mass destruction after they say he and another teenager planned to bomb a Utah high school.

Dallin Morgan and a 16-year-old were arrested Wednesday at Roy High School, about 30 miles north of Salt Lake City, after police were alerted to the plot by a fellow student who received ominous text messages from one of the suspects.

"If I tell you one day not to go to school, make damn sure you and ... are not there," the message read, according to court records.

Authorities said the pair had detailed blueprints of the school and had planned to try to steal a plane at a nearby airport after their attack. The students told police they had been learning to fly on a flight simulator program on their home computers.

Investigators were trying to determine just how close the two suspects were to pulling off an attack they say was inspired by the deadly 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colo.

Authorities say the younger suspect visited the school last month to interview the principal about the shootings and security measures.

Morgan was released on bond, pending arraignment Wednesday. The 16-year-old, whom The Associated Press isn't naming because he's a minor, had been held at a juvenile facility but authorities declined to immediately say whether he remained in custody Friday.

The FBI is examining the suspects' computers. Local and federal authorities searched the school, two vehicles belonging to the suspects and their homes but found no explosives.

The 16-year-old suspect's father declined comment Friday, and no one answered the door at Morgan's home.

The charge filed Friday includes conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction, not necessarily possessing one. Prosecutors are considering additional charges.

The suspects told authorities they were inspired by Columbine, but were offended when compared to them because "those killers only completed one percent of their plan," according to a probable cause statement.

Roy High School sophomore Bailey Gerhardt told The Salt Lake Tribune she received text messages from one of the suspects and alerted school administrators.

"I get the feeling you know what I'm planning," read one of the messages, according to court records. "Explosives, airport, airplane.

"We ain't gonna crash it, we're just gonna kill and fly our way to a country that won't send us back to the U.S.," read one message to the girl.

Royal Eccles, manager at the Ogden-Hinckley Airport, about a mile from the school, said Friday it would have been nearly impossible for the students to steal a plane or get the knowledge to fly one using flight simulator programs.

"It's highly improbable," Eccles said. "That's how naive these kids are."

While authorities are still working to determine a motive, one text message noted the suspects sought "revenge on the world."

Police credit the girl with helping foil the plan, though authorities said the school didn't have any assemblies set, and the suspects revealed no specific dates to pull off the attack.

"It could have been a disaster," Roy police spokeswoman Anna Bond said.

The juvenile suspect also told investigators he was so "fascinated" by the Columbine massacre that he visited the school and interviewed the principal about the shootings.

Columbine Principal Frank DeAngelis confirmed Friday he met with the 16-year-old student on Dec. 12 after the teenager told him he was doing a story for his school newspaper on the shootings.

DeAngelis told the AP he frequently gets requests from students doing research on the shootings, and the request from this one wasn't unusual.

"He asked the same questions I get from many callers and visitors asking about the shooting," DeAngelis said. He said the student wanted details about the shooting, the aftermath and the steps taken since then to protect the school.

Police said the student told them Roy school officials would not allow him to write the story.

DeAngelis said he was shocked when he got a call from Utah police on Wednesday asking if he had met with the youth. He said the interview raised no red flags but that he would do things differently with future requests.

"This was definitely a wake-up call. This is the first time this has happened," DeAngelis said.

The Roy High School plot "was months in planning," said Roy police Chief Gregory Whinham, and included plans for a device designed to "cause as much harm as possible to students and faculty" at the school.

Morgan told police the 16-year-old had previously made a pipe bomb using gun powder and rocket fuel.

"Dallin told me that (the juvenile) bragged about using a bomb to blow up a mail box and having three handguns in his house," according to a police affidavit. The 16-year-old boy "claimed that he did not have the guns but Dallin was the source of the guns because he is 18 and can purchase a gun."

The two students prepared by logging hundreds of hours on flight simulator software on their home computers, Bond said.

Both students had "absolute knowledge of the security systems and the layout of the school," Bond said. "They knew where the security cameras were. Their original plan was to set off explosives during an assembly. We don't know what date they were planning to do this, but they had been planning it for months."

The parents of both students "woke up in the middle of a nightmare," Bond said. "They've been very cooperative."

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Associated Press writer Steven K. Paulson contributed to this report from Denver.

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Video: Newt Gingrich battles Republican establishment

>>> good evening. in the poll numbers we are debuting tonight, there is a new gop front-runner in this race. that's newt gingrich . now leading mitt romney by nine points nationally. santorum third. ron paul with 12%, fourth. seizing the lead, however, as you know, comes with quite a cost to newt gingrich . as we've seen in this race so far, front runner status means coming under heavy fire. that's what happened today. our poll is also showing evidence this race is hurting the gop , and we could see more of that tonight at the next debate, because after all, it's only been three days since the last one. a lot of ground to cover tonight, including those new poll numbers. first, let's begin with nbc's ron mott in jacksonville tonight. ron , good evening.

>> reporter: hey, brian, good evening to you. long before republicans officially get the chance to beat president barack obama in the fall, newt gingrich is saying tonight he's getting beaten up by the republican establishment and does not plan to go down without a fight.

>> you sounded angry today.

>> i am angry. i'm angry. every american should be angry.

>> reporter: with $14 million of advertising in florida aimed largely at newt gingrich from mitt romney and a super pac backing him.

>> if newt wins, this guy would be very happy.

>> reporter: the former house speaker had a lot to say today, as evidence surfaces his forward momentum may be slowing. in the line of fire the gop establishment he says is supporting romney.

>> how can somebody run a campaign this dishonest and think he's have any credibility running for president?

>> we are not going to beat barack brag with some guy who has swiss bank accounts , cayman island accounts, shares of goldman sachs that forecloses in south florida .

>> reporter: he says a primary win would bring up the forces against him. one force bob dole did just that. writing in an open letter , "hardly anyone who served with newt in congress has endorsed him, and that fact speaks for itself. he was a one-man hand who rarely took advice. it was his way or the highway." former house speaker nancy pelosi raised eyebrows in a tv interview tuesday.

>> he's not going to be president of the united states . that's not going to happen.

>> why are you so sure?

>> there is something i know.

>> reporter: the intrigue prompted this fiery resort from gingrich on the "today" show.

>> i have no idea what is in nancy pelosi 's head.

>> reporter: the apparent frustration flows beyond the candidate. how do you attain all your information?

>> reporter: gingrich's press secretary confronted utah congressman a romney supporter, and soon the zincers were flying.

>> where does newt gingrich live?

>> reporter: john mccain 's former campaign senior strategist warned things could get rougher.

>> if newt gingrich is able to win the florida primary , you will see a panic and meltdown of the republican establishment that is beyond my ability to articulate in the english language .

>> reporter: tonight, nbc's michael isikoff is reporting mitt romney is amending his financial disclosure forms to include tax return information that did not officially get put in those forms from overseas investments.

>> ron mott from florida tonight.

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Why is investment income taxed less than wages?

House Speaker John Boehner listens as President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address in front of a joint session of Congress Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)

House Speaker John Boehner listens as President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address in front of a joint session of Congress Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Why do Mitt Romney and other wealthy investors pay lower taxes on the income they make from investments than they would if they earned their millions from wages? Because Congress, through the tax code, has long treated investment more favorably than labor, seeing it as an engine for economic growth that benefits everyone.

President Barack Obama and the Occupy Wall Street movement are challenging that value system, raising volatile election-year issues of equity, fairness ? and Romney's tax returns.

Romney, who released his 2010 and 2011 tax returns this week, has been forced to defend the fact that he paid a tax rate of about 15 percent on an annual income of $21 million. His tax rate is comparable to the one paid by most middle-income families. His income, however, is 420 times higher than the typical U.S. household.

The Republican presidential candidate's taxes were so low because the vast majority of his income came from investments. The U.S. has long had a progressive income tax, in which people who make more money pay taxes at a higher rate than those who make less. But for almost as long, the U.S. has taxed capital gains ? the profit from selling an investment ? at a lower rate than wages.

"There are two ways to look at: There is a moral argument and an economic growth argument, and they both point to lower taxes on capital gains," said William McBride, an economist at the conservative Tax Foundation.

McBride says it is unfair to tax income more than once, and capital gains are taxed multiple times. If you got the original investment from wages, that money was taxed. If the stock you own gains value because the company you invested in makes a profit, those profits are taxed through the corporate tax. And if that company issues dividends, those are taxed as well.

Lots of people are double taxed, says Chuck Marr, director of federal tax policy for the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. "Check out your last pay stub: There's income tax and payroll tax, so you're double taxed, too," Marr said.

And, he noted, when you buy something, you probably pay a sales tax.

Under current law, the top tax rate is 15 percent on qualified dividend and long-term capital gains ? the profits from selling assets that have been held for at least a year. The top income tax rate on wages is 35 percent, though that applies only to taxable income above $388,350.

Congress started taxing capital gains at a lower rate than wages following World War I. The concern then was that high taxes on capital gains actually reduced revenue because people would simply hold onto their investments and restrict the flow of capital, according to the Encyclopedia of Taxation and Tax Policy.

At the time, however, the top tax rate on wages was a whopping 73 percent. In 1922, Congress lowered the top capital gains rate to 12.5 percent, a rate that lasted until 1934.

For much of the next 70 years, the top tax rate on long-term capital gains hovered between 20 percent and 30 percent, going as high as 39.9 percent in the 1970s but never falling below 20 percent until 2003, when Congress passed a gradual reduction to the current rate.

The 2003 law also started taxing qualified dividends at the same rate as capital gains.

Liberals and some moderates argue that lower taxes on investments are a giveaway to the rich because they are the ones who get the most benefit. Last year, two-thirds of all capital gains went to people making more than $1 million, according to the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, the official scorekeeper for Congress.

Only 5 percent of capital gains went to people making less than $100,000, and only 13 percent went to people making less than $200,000.

"I'm a liberal person and I believe strongly that the wealthy should pay more than the working poor," Marr said, regardless of whether the income is from investments or labor.

Obama has taken up this argument, though his budget proposals have called for only small tax increases on capital gains and dividends, to a top rate of 20 percent.

Instead, Obama has developed the "Buffet Rule," named after billionaire investor Warren Buffet, which says rich people shouldn't pay taxes at a lower rate than their secretaries. To impose this rule, Obama said at his State of The Union address Tuesday that people making more than $1 million should pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes.

"Now, you can call this class warfare all you want," Obama said. "But asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes? Most Americans would call that common sense."

The proposal has little chance of passing a divided Congress this year, and the Obama administration has released few details on how the tax would work.

Conservatives argue that increasing investment taxes would make it harder to for businesses to raise capital, restricting job growth and hurting financial markets, reducing income for people who rely on pension funds and 401(k) accounts as well as billionaires and millionaires.

"In my view the rationale for taxing capital gains and dividends at a lower rate has nothing to do with what an individual pays versus another individual," said Jim McCrery, who was a senior Republican member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee when the 2003 tax cuts were enacted. "It has everything to do with the creation of jobs in this country."

McCrery now works for the Alliance for Savings and Investment, a coalition of companies and business groups that want to keep the current tax rates on capital gains and dividends.

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Solo uncertain for US game that decides Oly berth

U.S.A.'s goalkeeper Hope Solo (1) adjusts a ice pack on her leg following a 4-0 win over Mexico at the CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying soccer at B.C. Place in Vancouver, British Columbia Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

U.S.A.'s goalkeeper Hope Solo (1) adjusts a ice pack on her leg following a 4-0 win over Mexico at the CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying soccer at B.C. Place in Vancouver, British Columbia Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) ? Hope Solo's leg injury could keep the goalkeeper out of the game that determines whether the U.S. women's national team goes to the Olympics.

Coach Pia Sundhage said Wednesday that she needs to see how Solo is recovering from a pulled right quad before deciding on the lineup for Friday's game against Costa Rica.

Solo has needed extra work to get back into soccer shape after appearing on "Dancing With the Stars" following last year's World Cup. She said she pulled the quad a few days ago, and the injury was aggravated during the first half of Tuesday night's 4-0 win over Mexico.

Nicole Barnhart is Solo's backup for the tournament.

The winner of Friday's game earns one of the region's two berths for the London Games.

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Davos elite: Capitalism has widened income gap (AP)

DAVOS, Switzerland ? A four-year economic crisis has left societies battered and widened the gap between the haves and have-nots, financial leaders conceded Wednesday ? with one suggesting that Western-style capitalism itself may be endangered.

As Europe struggles with its debt crisis and the global economic outlook remains gloomy at best, there's a sense at the heavily guarded World Economic Forum that free markets are on trial.

Many at the elite economic gathering in the Swiss Alps accept that more must be done to convince critics that Western capitalism has a future and that it can learn from its massive failures.

For David Rubenstein, the co-founder and managing director of asset management firm Carlyle Group, leaders must work fast to overcome the current crisis or else different models of capitalism, such as the form practiced in China, may win the day.

"As a result of this recession, that's lasted longer than anyone predicted and will probably go on for a number more years ... we're going to have a lot of economic disparities," Rubenstein said. "We've got to work through these problems. If we don't do in three or four years ... the game will be over for the type of capitalism that many of us have lived through and thought was the best type."

Some 2,600 of the world's most influential people came for the forum this week amid increasing worries about the global economy and social unrest due to rising income inequalities.

China has reaped the rewards of its transition to a more market economy and is now the world's second-largest economy. Unlike the capitalist systems in the U.S. and Europe, China's market transformation has been heavily guided by a state apparatus that continues to balk at widespread democratic reforms. Latin America, too, has seen success in the development of "state capitalism" in certain industries.

"You combine elements of private enterprise with public responsibility," said Colombia's mining and energy minister, Mauricio Cardenas.

Although Rubenstein's stark appraisal may be an outlier, there was a clear defensive posture among many participants on this opening day of the forum.

There were numerous references to the need to innovate, the need to consult with employees and the realization that power in the world is shifting from the west to the east. While the traditional industrial economies of the United States and Europe have limped through the last few years, often from one crisis to another, many economies in Asia and Latin America have been booming.

But Raghuram Rajan, a professor at the University of Chicago, doubted that the Chinese model was likely to last for too long.

State capitalism, he said, may be good if you're playing "catch-up" but it reaches its "natural limits" once that's been accomplished. Others worried about conflicts of interest as the same government officials run the companies and set industry regulations.

Mark Penn, global CEO of the public relations firm Burson-Marsteller, told The Associated Press that "the whole crisis has raised larger questions about how is capitalism working, how do you redefine fairness in the 21st century?"

Many rejected the suggestion by Sharan Burrow, the general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, that capitalism has lost its "moral compass" and needed to be "reset." Business leaders insisted they were learning from the mistakes that dragged the world into its deepest economic recession since the World War II.

Bank of America's CEO Brian Moynihan said bank excesses in the run-up to the credit crunch of 2008 reflected the economies the banks were operating in, so it is important now that policymakers don't overreact.

Moynihan, whose bank had to back down on charging a $5 debit card fee after protests by the Occupy movement and others, said banks have "done a lot" to reduce earlier excesses. He also noted that boom and bust cycles are a part of the Western capitalist structure.

Many outside the confines of the Davos conference center disagree, after years of crisis in which hundreds of millions have lost their jobs even as top executives still reap huge pay packets.

Protesters on Wednesday sent aloft big red weather balloons carrying a huge protest banner reading "Hey WEF, Where are the other 6.9999 billion leaders?"

The activists were from the Occupy WEF movement, a small group camping out in igloos at Davos and following in the footsteps of the Occupy Wall Street movement that spread around the world.

Experts said protests must be expected after the excesses of the last decade.

"When you have a financial sector which is a casino, that's putting at risk taxpayers' money, you have a reaction," said Guillermo Ortiz, a former governor of the Bank of Mexico.

Policymakers around the world have sought to rein in the excesses of the banking sector by introducing new regulations requiring them to keep bigger capital buffers, but that's not done much to appease those voicing their discontent around Davos.

Although some protesters clearly have revolutionary goals like the overthrow of the capitalist system, many just want their aspirations and objectives met by an often-distant political and business elite.

The CEO of accounting giant Deloitte, Joe Echevarria, talked about developing "compassionate capitalism."

"You're going to have to deal with regulation ? balancing the need to protect society along with stifling growth," he told AP in an interview. "I think that has to manifest itself through the choices that governments and businesses make."

While the bigwigs debated at Davos, key Greek bondholders were holding closed-door meetings in Paris to discuss how ? and whether ? to continue talks central to resolving Europe's debt crisis that would forgive 50 percent of Greece's enormous debt.

Later Wednesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to speak on Europe's crisis in her keynote speech at the forum. In an interview with six European newspapers, Merkel drove home the need for reform in debt-troubled eurozone nations instead of spending more to beef up the region's bailout fund.

Surveys ahead of the meeting showed pessimism among world CEOs, plunging levels of public trust in business and government leaders and concerns that fragility in the U.S. and European economies could hurt the global economy.

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Frank Jordans, Martin Benedyk and Niko Price contributed to this report.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120125/ap_on_re_us/eu_davos_forum

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The Day After Raw: Your Tweets for Jan. 24, 2011

The entire WWE roster readied for the Royal Rumble's over-the-top rope scenario this Sunday by going just that - like Sly Stallone in an arm wrestling tournament - on Raw SuperShow. The 25th anniversary of the Rumble is just around the bend, and the WWE Universe is clamoring to see what a retributive, grim-faced John Cena has planned for Kane and if The Miz can prove that he's truly "No. 1" in the 30-man joust.

It's the day after Raw. Let's see what you thought ...

Johnny be mad!
Moments after watching his friend, Zack Ryder, carted off in an ambulance, the regret on John Cena's face slowly dissipated in lieu of the meanest mug ever seen on the Cenation leader. Kane chokeslammed Ryder through Raw's steel stage, seriously injuring Long Island Iced-Z and simultaneously breaking something inside of Cena. It took the vilest act committed by The Big Red Monster since his return to trigger a darker side of the 12-time World Champion to (literally) show its face.

Though he may not look the part (unlike his grotesquely masked enemy), Cena has been involved in WWE's most vicious matches - from Hell in a Cell to the Elimination Chamber. He's been through hell and it looks like he's ready to go there one more time when he faces Kane at the Rumble.

@DeaconKirby: I gotta ask @TheRock, are you scared of Angry John Cena ? #raw

@dickiegreenlee: "Yes, Cena, yes... Now release your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!" #Raw

@DAsharpshooters: When John Cena gets super angry, he turns into Vigo from Ghostbusters 2. #wwe #Raw

@justinruff: I woke my wife up to see Angry Cena face. #Raw

@WrestlePassion: Broken back? Big damn deal. Cena came back from a ruptured spine in my day. #Raw

@samuelamer: John Cena finally embrace the hate, CM Punk GTS's Johnny Ace, Y2J finally say a word. Raw this week was awesome (y) @WWE #RAW

@The_Dalyxman: Damn. John Cena making the rules around here. I like it. @WWE #RAW

@Amirul71711: I can smell the heel of John Cena #raw

@justinruff: Anybody else love that Cena "angry face"? It looks like he channeled Vince. #Raw

@GingerPimpernel: Moral of this #Raw: Cena kept his cool when Kane killed Ryder, but Josh Matthews made him so angry he couldn't hold it in anymore. @WWE #WWE

@TalentedInk: Was that Cena's angry man face? #RAW

The Miz is No. 1
Speaking of infernal damnation, it seems The Miz has a slim chance in hell to once again headline WrestleMania. The former WWE Champion can make it to the marquee main event in Miami but first he'll need to surpass 29 other combatants in the Royal Rumble Match - from start to finish. His loss to R-Truth "earned" Miz the No. 1 spot in Sunday's all-important battle, putting The Awesome One at a large disadvantage in St. Louis. Of course, No. 2 isn't much luckier, but there's a very distinct psychological pressure that the first entrant must endure, even if such a struggle has been overcome in the past. (Historical Rumble Match photos)

The Miz should spend the next few days studying the 1995 Rumble Match - not because of Pamela Anderson's cameo appearance but rather to takes notes on Shawn Michaels' end-to-end winning performance. You can start here, Miz: Watch HBK win the Rumble. Prepare to dangle for dear No. 1 contendership!

@aj0314: THE MIZ IS ALWAYS #1 IN EVERYTHING, BUT IN THE ROYAL RUMBLE MATCH?! WELL, THE MIZ WILL GO SHAWN MICHAELS ON EVERYONE!!! AWESOME!!! #WWE #RAW

@brendon_bryant: Dear lord.....please let me see The Miz win the Royal Rumble in person. #Raw

@SAVE_US_GSM: If William Regal doesn't compete in the Royal Rumble on Sunday, I'm rioting. #Raw

@MatthewAcosta: I want R-Truth's new T-Shirt haha #RAW #WWE

@jenbearbaby: R-Truth sporting a "Little Jimmy Says" t-shirt. I know what I'm buying next time I enter wweshop.com! @WWE #RAW

@MarkinOut: A Royal Rumble doesn't really seem like a Royal Rumble without Shawn Michaels. #WWE #Raw #HallOfFame

@MeliMelissax3: 62:12 Rey Mysterio is a beast #RAW

@AwesomeMizfit48: OMG!!!!!! I am sooo Mad!!!! No the Miz can do it!!!! He will last n win the Royal Rumble!!! #BeMiz #Raw

Road Warrior "Ace"
It wasn't red, spike-laden shoulder pads that WWE EVP and Interim Raw GM John Laurinaitis wore into battle against WWE Champion CM Punk. No, unlike Laurinaitis' brother, Road Warrior Animal, the executive came adorned in a silky, choir-inspired robe but in an appropriate shade of scarlet red, perhaps in homage to the legendary Legion of Doom. The clash never took place between "Ace" and Punk, who let the cat out of the bag about Laurinaitis' fraternal ties one week earlier (Read WWE.com's interview with Animal). Nonetheless, what a rrushhh it was to see the WWE Champion lay out his own boss with a GTS! Will this impact the Interim GM's performance view by a returning Triple H on the next Raw.

@BigMastadon: I think we all know that fax was from Hugh Hefner asking for his robe back. #wwe #raw

@PhantomLordNYC: @WWERawGM man that robe looks swank. Haters gonna hate. #raw

@ericktumang: What's up with @WWERawGM's wizard robe? Is he going to help the Hobbits bring the ring to Mordor? #RAW

@JKourie009: #GTS to freaking John Laurinaitis!!!!!!! Haven't enjoyed one of those for a long time!!! @WWE #Raw

@WWE_Fever: Now Johnny Ace wants to be a good guy huh?? I think he is intimidated by what's gonna happen when HHH gives his review next week on #Raw.

@WWERawGM: I've got a front row seat to hot tag team action. Exciting. Creative. Laurinaitis. #raw #wwe #bigjohnny

@RAMelok: John Laurinaitis totally ripping off Teddy Long with this match. #TagTeamMatchPlaya #Raw

@randomedian: That idiot Laurinaitis didn't even change his expression when he got lifted up for the GTS. #RAW

@WWERockCena: Send John Laurinaitis packing Triple H! #WWE #Raw

@Smalls0629: The real reason the CM Punk vs. John Laurinaitis match won't happen tonight is because it's 11:08. #Raw

@Bobbito1230: Note to John Laurinaitis: Never trust a man in a sweater vest to be your replacement. #WWE #RAW

@JacquelineLanay: If John Laurinaitis Was Terminated, Imagine The Celebrations Around The World. #WWE #Raw

@WWEUniverse: From http://WWE.com Live Chat: "John Laurinaitis should've came out w/ a shirt that said, 'I'm Huge In Japan'" #Raw @WWERawGM

Random Raw ramblings

@PeteMMA: Chris Jericho said this Sunday is the end of the world as we know it. Should probably cancel my dinner reservations #raw

@nacgator: And I feel fine RT @IAmJericho This Sunday at the Royal Rumble, it's going to be the end of the world as you know it.... #raw

@bradcandoit: My new go-to dance move is the Funkasaurus Dinosaur Claws. #raw

@brendon_bryant: Haha! Smart move there for Ziggler to check his heart rate during the tag match. Heart disease is the #1 killer in America. #Raw #WVR

@MistressGumby: Just how many walrus' have you watched giving birth William Regal? #raw

@tonylayneshow: Regal rapping Grandmaster Flash...highlight of the evening. #raw. This is entertaining

@ThatRoseTattoo: I might have heard wrong but I think I just heard a Grandmaster Flash reference on #RAW

@notwilson: Jericho finally breaks his silence. The crowd goes nuts upon hearing that one sentence. It's like a toddler learning how to speak. #raw

@LucyEllery: No! Not a t-shirt gun! That's what killed Maude Flanders! #jericho #raw

Share your voice with the rest of the WWE Universe on Twitter by using #RAW and check back next week for the next edition of The Day After Raw.

Source: http://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/2012-01-23/day-after-raw

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Wall Street stalls at open after big run (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Stocks were little changed in early trading on Monday after equities posted their best week in a month as the euro zone debt crisis and the economy showed signs of stabilizing.

Germany and France pressed for a rapid deal between Greece and its private creditors and said they remained committed to a new bailout that is needed by March to avert a default. Euro zone finance ministers were due to decide later Monday on what debt restructuring terms they would accept.

The euro hit its highest level in nearly three weeks against the dollar on optimism a deal would be reached.

U.S. stocks are up nearly 5 percent this year after four days of gains, with investors particularly emboldened by a turnaround in U.S. banking stocks that have helped lead the rally after an abysmal 2011.

A solid showing in fourth-quarter earnings during the current reporting season has also put a floor in the market.

David Lutz, a trader at Stifel Nicolaus Capital Markets in Baltimore, pointed out that some technical analysts are calling for a pullback after the market's strong run.

"Some of the market action to me is showing the possibility of a 'Blowoff Top' this week before we head south of 1,300 again (on the S&P 500)," he said in an email.

The Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) was up 13.69 points, or 0.11 percent, at 12,734.17. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (.SPX) was up 3.37 points, or 0.26 percent, at 1,318.75. The Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC) was up 8.43 points, or 0.30 percent, at 2,795.13.

The S&P 500 is up more than 22 percent from October lows. The Nasdaq 100 (.NDX) is at its highest level since 2001.

Halliburton Co (HAL.N), the world's second largest oilfield services company, posted quarterly profit that beat analysts' estimates, helped by improved activity in North America. The stock, which has rallied 18 percent since late December, fell 3.6 percent to $34.85.

Research In Motion Ltd's (RIM.TO) (RIMM.O) co-chief executives bowed to investor pressure and resigned over the weekend, handing the top job to an insider with four years at the struggling BlackBerry maker. The stock fell 6 percent to $15.98.

The current earnings season has not been as good as previous ones. Of about 70 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported earnings so far, 60 percent exceeded estimates, according to Thomson Reuters data.

"If earnings come in decently I don't see any type of a big plunge," said Wayne Kaufman, chief market analyst at John Thomas Financial in New York. But, he added, "I'm still concerned about when we get towards the end of earnings season."

Given the recent outperformance of economically sensitive stocks compared to interest rates, Goldman Sachs recommended shorting U.S. 10-year Treasury bonds in anticipation that improved economic performance will push yields higher.

"Yields have traded in a tight range around an average 2 percent since September, including so far into 2012," said Goldman in a research note. "We are now of the view that a break to the upside, to 2.25-2.50 percent, is likely and recommend going tactically short."

Investors in recent weeks have been heartened by improving economic data, even though progress has been uneven.

Chesapeake Energy Corp (CHK.N) will reduce dry gas drilling and cut production in response to natural gas prices falling below "economically unattractive levels". The stocks rose 7.6 percent to $22.54.

(Reporting By Edward Krudy editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/stocks/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120123/bs_nm/us_markets_stocks

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Florida Presidential Preference Primary Voter Guide (ContributorNetwork)

The Florida presidential preference primary is the next contest in the 2012 GOP nomination process. There are four candidates still in the running for Florida's delegates. The Sunshine State will be the largest state in the early primary races for the Republican Party in terms of population.

Here is a voter guide for Florida residents hoping to cast their votes for Newt Gingrich, Rep. Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, or Rick Santorum.

How to Vote

The presidential preference primary is Jan. 31. Polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. Florida is a closed primary state, meaning you have to be registered as a Republican to vote in the GOP primary. Voters in Florida needed to register by Jan. 3 or change their party affiliation by that date.

Voting happens with an optical scan voting machine. In 2007, Florida mandated that all counties use the same voting system. The way it works that polling officials will hand you a paper ballot, fill in ovals next to the choices you make, then insert your ballot into the optical scanner. The scanning machine will verify that you have voted properly before you leave.

What to Bring

In Florida, registered voters must bring a valid picture identification with a signature. Valid forms of ID include a Florida driver's license, Florida identification card, U.S. passport, military identification, student ID, or even a debit/credit card. You must have a photo with a signature on the same identification card.

Candidates

Candidates had to register in Florida by Oct. 31. Nine candidates registered in Florida's primary across the state. Even though four candidates have dropped out, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Jon Huntsman and Texas Gov. Rick Perry are still on the ballot.

Registration

Florida has just more than 4 million Republican voters registered for the upcoming election out of 11.2 million voters total. Voters may check their status on the Florida elections website. The state has 67 counties where voters will turn out to make their choice for the GOP nomination. In 2008, 42 percent of all voters turned out for the presidential preference primary.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20120122/pl_ac/10869253_florida_presidential_preference_primary_voter_guide

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6.2 quake hits off coast of southern Mexico (AP)

MEXICO CITY ? A magnitude-6.2 earthquake hit off the coast of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas on Saturday, shaking the state from the capital of Tuxtla Gutierrez to Tapachula on the border with Guatemala. There were no immediate reports of injury or major damage.

The quake, which hit at 12:47 p.m. local time (1:47 p.m. EST; 18:47 GMT), broke windows in Tuxtla Gutierrez and sent frightened residents into the streets in cities across Chiapas.

The temblor, which felt like waves in Tuxtla Gutierrez, caused a panic but came with no early reports of major damage or injuries, said Jose Manuel Aragon, spokesman for the state Civil Protection agency.

He said the quake was felt strongly in the state capital, in Tapachula and in Comitan.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the epicenter was in the Pacific Ocean about 35 miles (57 kilometers) southwest of the city of Mapastepec, on the coast near the border with Guatemala. It had a depth of 41 miles (66 kilometers.)

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Lana Del Rey: 'I Don't Love Live Television'

Before 'Saturday Night Live,' singer said, 'You can't expect too much.'
By Gil Kaufman

Lana Del Rey on "Saturday Night Live"
Photo: NBC

It's been a rough few days for singer Lana Del Rey. Her instantly legendary awkward network TV debut on "Saturday Night Live"
 has been dissected, dissed and defended endlessly since last weekend. But the one thing we haven't heard in the wake of the polarizing performance is how Del Rey feels about how she did.

While she still hasn't officially commented on the criticism, the singer spoke to the Fuse network just days before the "SNL" gig and said that, frankly, live performance is not really her thing.

"You can't expect too much from my show," Del Rey said, explaining that her real fans are probably aware that she's more of a songwriter and studio musician than performer and that she thinks people who come to see her show are really just there to hear the songs they already like.

"Sometimes I feel less nervous than other times," she added. "I don't love live television. The only tip I have is just pray and just hope that things work out."

That attitude pretty much fits what Del Rey told MTV News
 before "SNL," when she said she finds singing on TV "weird."

"[It] depends on the day," Del Rey said. "Depends on what's going on with my family and everyone around me. If I have other things to think about, or I'm trying to get things done for somebody else, and I'm not in my own way, then ... I'm like, 'This doesn't really matter.' Sometimes it seems more important to me than other times."

And though everyone from "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams to actress Eliza Dushku and singer/actress Juliette Lewis (whose tweets have since been deleted) piled on Del Rey in the moment, since the dust has settled a bit, another actress has come out in defense of the singer.

"Whitney" star and stand-up comedian Whitney Cummings, who faced her fair share of criticism when her NBC sitcom debuted last year, posted a blog on Thursday in which she pleaded with haters to chill out.

"I have many random thoughts. First, everybody calm down," she wrote. "It's a little troubling that when a young girl fails at something that we keep kicking her why she is down. I get very protective of girls, especially young performers, because they live a hard, emotionally challenging, often physically challenging life where you are constantly given reasons to be insecure and have panic attacks. I totally get the stuff about her not deserving to be there and I don't mean to insult musicians in any way if that's how they feel obviously, but this is an opportunity to show us how hard being a performer is so maybe they can all be cut some slack."

Cummings honed her act for years on the stand-up circuit before breaking through last year with her sitcom and a producer and co-creator credit on "2 Broke Girls," and she said she doesn't feel qualified to judge Del Rey's performance. "It takes a long time to get good, and even when you are good, you can be challenged by new venues and being televised, and cameras, and the uh...fear and terror of being slammed by critics and bloggers," she wrote. "Plus if you are a woman you also get fashion criticism and if you're a pretty woman you're accused of having plastic surgery and if you're not you're 'busted' and people blog about how they don't want to f--- you ... it's not ideal."

Add into that mix the self-hate and self-criticism that many artists have, and Cummings said even when things go perfectly, it's still hard. "So when it goes bad, it's just the worst vortex of misery," she said. "If she fell on her face, she was there, she felt it, and her having lived it is punishment enough. We don't need to keep bashing her unless it makes us feel better about ourselves which ... isn't an ideal reason to hate someone."

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Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1677592/lana-del-rey-live-performance.jhtml

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HelloGiggles ? Hello Giggles Pets of the Week!

Confession time, Gigglers: I really love when animals do human things. I even started a Tumblr called ?Animals Doing Human Things?. No, that?s not meant to be self promotion ? it?s just me trying to prove to you how much I love when animals act like people (especially classy business people).

Which is why my favorite female dog CEO pet of the week has to be Aubie. That dog looks better in those?pearls?than I do in mine! But this week?s whole gallery is pretty much full of the cutest pets I?ve ever seen.

Want to try and make next week?s gallery even cuter with the inclusion of your pet? E-mail us your pictures and be sure to include your pet?s name. Until next week, fellow animal lovers!

Morgan is an NYU student who wishes she could graduate and be a grown-up producer and/or blogger already. She also loves all things Disney and hot pink, which she realizes may contradict her desire to be an adult. You can follow her on Twitter @Morgan_L_Nelson or Tumblr at mln2118.tumblr.com.
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Ship search finds 12th body, captain's documents (AP)

GIGLIO, Italy ? Divers plumbing the capsized Costa Concordia's murky depths pulled out the body of a woman in a life vest Saturday, while scuba-diving police swam through the captain's cabin to retrieve a safe and documents belonging to the man who abandoned the cruise liner after it was gashed by a rocky reef on the Tuscan coast.

Hoping for a miracle ? or at least for the recovery of bodies from the ship that has become an underwater tomb ? relatives of some of the 20 missing appealed to survivors of the Jan. 13 shipwreck to offer details that could help divers reach loved ones while it is still possible to search the luxury liner. The clock is ticking because the craft is perched precariously on a rocky ledge of seabed near Giglio island.

"We are asking the 4,000 persons who were on board to give any information they can about any of the persons still missing," said Alain Litzler, a Frenchman who is the father of missing passenger Mylene Litzler. "We need precise information to help the search and rescue teams find them."

Early Sunday, instruments monitoring any movement of the Concordia indicated that vessel had shifted slightly, so search efforts were suspended for the night, Italian state radio reported.

The death toll rose to at least 12 Saturday after a water-logged body was extracted from a passageway near a gathering point for evacuation by lifeboats in the rear of the vessel, Coast Guard Cmdr. Filippo Marini said. It was not immediately clear if the woman was a passenger or crew member. A female Peruvian bartender and several adult female passengers were among the 21 people listed as missing before the latest corpse was found.

Relatives of the bartender and of an Indian crewman, along with two children of an elderly couple from Minnesota who are among the missing, boarded a boat Saturday to view the wrecked Concordia Saturday, said a maritime official, Fabrizio Palombo.

Family members tossed flowers near the site while islanders standing on the rocky edge of the island also strew bouquets on the water in a tribute to the victims.

Another Coast Guard official, Cosimo Nicastro, said the woman's body was found during a particularly risky inspection.

"The corridor was very narrow, and the divers' lines risked snagging" on furniture and objects floating in the passageway, Nicastro said. To help the coast guard divers reach the area, Italian navy divers had preceded them, setting off charges to blast holes for easier entrance and exit.

Meanwhile, police divers, carrying out orders from prosecutors investigating Captain Francesco Schettino for suspected manslaughter and abandoning the ship, swam through the cold, dark waters to reach his cabin. State TV and the Italian news agency ANSA reported that the divers located and remove his safe and two suitcases. His passport and several documents were also pulled out, state media said.

Searchers inspecting the bridge Saturday also found a hard disk containing data of the voyage, Sky TG24 TV reported.

Three bodies were found in waters around the ship in the first hours after the accident. Since then, divers have gone inside the Concordia to recover all the remaining victims, who were apparently unable to escape the lurching ship during a chaotic evacuation launched almost an hour after the liner hit a reef.

Some survivors who couldn't board lifeboats waited for hours aboard the capsizing craft for rescue by helicopters while others jumped into the water and swam to safety.

The last survivor, found aboard 36 hours after the crash, was an Italian crewman who broke his leg in the confusion and couldn't leave the ship.

The Concordia hit the reef, well-marked on maritime and even tourist maps, while most of the passengers sat down to dinner in the main restaurant, about two hours after the ship had set sail from the port of Civitavecchia on the Tyrrhenian Sea.

Costa Crociere, the ship's operator and subsidiary of U.S.-based Carnival Cruise Lines, has said the captain had deviated without permission from the vessel's route in an apparent maneuver to sail close to the island of Giglio and impress passengers.

Schettino, despite audiotapes of his defying Coast Guard orders to scramble back aboard, has denied he abandoned ship while hundreds of passengers were desperately trying to get off the capsizing vessel. He has said he coordinated the rescue from aboard a lifeboat and then from the shore.

The effort to find survivors and bodies has postponed an operation to remove heavy fuel in the Concordia's tanks; specialized equipment has been standing by for days.

Light fuel, apparently from machinery aboard the capsized ship, was spotted in nearby waters, authorities said Saturday.

But Nicastro said there was no indication that any of the nearly 500,000 gallons (2,200 metric tons) of heavy fuel oil has leaked from the ship's double-bottomed tanks, seen as a risk if the ship's position changes. He said the leaked substance appears to be diesel, which is used to fuel rescue boats and dinghies and as a lubricant for ship machinery.

There are 185 tons of diesel and lubricants on board the crippled vessel, which is lying on its side just outside Giglio's port. Nicastro described the fuel in the sea as "very light, very superficial" and appearing to be under control.

But an official leading rescue, search and anti-pollution efforts for the ship suggested that the luxury liner would have leaked contaminants on board when it tipped over.

"We must not forget that on that ship there are oils, solvents, detergents, everything that a city of 4,000 people needs," Franco Gabrielli, the head of Italy's civil protection agency, told reporters in Giglio.

Gabrielli was referring to the roughly 3,200 passengers and 1,000 crew who were aboard the cruise liner when it ran into the reef and, with seawater rushing into a 230-foot (70-meter) gash in its hull, listed and fell onto its side. "Contamination of the environment, ladies and gentlemen, already occurred" when the liner capsized, Gabrelli said.

Vessels equipped with machinery to suck out the light fuel oil were in the area. Earlier on Saturday, crews removed oil-absorbing booms used to prevent environmental damage in case of a leak. Originally white, the booms were grayish.

Schettino, is under house arrest for investigation of alleged manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning the ship before all were evacuated.

The search had been suspended Friday after the Concordia shifted, prompting fears the ship could roll off a rocky ledge of sea bed and plunge deeper into the pristine waters around Giglio, part of a seven-island Tuscan archipelago.

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D'Emilio reported from Rome. Colleen Barry contributed from Milan and Andrea Foa from Giglio.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/europe/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120122/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_italy_cruise_aground

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Health Tip: Limit Drug-Food Interactions (HealthDay)

(HealthDay News) -- Sometimes the foods you eat and the meds you take don't mix.

The American Academy of Family Physicians says foods can negatively affect the way prescription or over-the-counter drugs work. The academy offers this advice on avoiding these so-called drug-food interactions:

• Always read the label on your medications; ask questions of the pharmacist if you don't understand something or aren't sure.
• Follow all label instructions and warnings on both prescription and over-the-counter medications.
• Take any medication with a full glass of water, unless your doctor has advised differently.
• Don't stir a medication with food or break open a capsule, unless your doctor has told you to do so.
• Don't take any medication at the same time as you take vitamins.
• Don't mix a medication in a hot drink, and never take a medication with alcohol.

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Intel offers overclocking protection plan, takes Cash4CPUs

For a certain subset of tech geeks, it can be hard to live with the knowledge that raw processing power lies untapped within their machines. And it's typically those users that indulge in a bit of overclocking, pushing their CPUs to the limit, often resulting in unstable performance or even a fried processor. Give a hand, then, to the folks over at Intel, who have heard your nerd pleas and are offering up an extended safety net so you can continue to code dangerously. Dubbed the Performance Tuning Protection Plan, this optional add-on for unlocked processors (ending in X or K) reaches beyond the standard three year warranty to give users a one-time replacement. You'll still have to cough up some cash -- about $20 to $35 depending on what your computer's packing -- but that's still a small price to pay for a second chance at silicon thrills.

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